Senator Elizabeth Warren to Speak at Clark U. on March 14

Friday, February 26, 2016

GoLocalWorcester News Team

Senator Elizabeth Warren

Senator Elizabeth Warren will speak at Clark University as part of the 6th Annual Lee Gurel Lecture to take place on Monday, March 14 in Atwood Hall. The lecture is part of the inaugural Gurel Symposium on Education titled " NEXT GEN LEARNING: Opportunities for Urban Education in the New Federal Law."

The lecture is set to start at 10 a.m. and run to noon and is free and open to the public.

Elizabeth Warren

Warren is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and played an important part in the passage of the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act.

During her speech, Warren will outline her views on this new legislation and federal education policy.

Leading Education Experts to Discuss

Following Warren's remarks, a panel of leading education experts while share their perspectives on the range of skills that students will need to be successful in the future. The panel will also share their views on how the new federal law positions urban communities to provide the deeper learning experience in the classroom and beyond.

The panel will consist of:

   •   Nick Donohue, President and CEO, Nellie Mae Education Foundation
   •   Ronald Ferguson, Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University
   •   Dianne Kelly, Superintendent, Revere Public Schools
   •   Gene Wilhoit, Executive Director, National Center for Innovation in Education
Moderator:
   •   Katerine Bielaczyc, Director of the Hiatt Center for Urban Education and Associate Professor of Education, Clark University

Clark University

Clark University was founded in 1887 in Worcester and is a liberal arts based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale.